Improvement in axle-skeins



UNITED STATES PATENT OEEIoE.

JEREMIAH J. HUTOHINS, OF RED OAK, IOWA.

IMPROVEMENT IN AXLE-SKEINS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 153,569, dated July 28, 1874; application-filed May 9, 1874.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, JEREMIAH JoHNsoN HUTCHINS, of Red Oak, Montgomery county, Iowa, have invented a new and Improved Thimble-Skein, of which the following is a specification:

My invention consists of a hollow cast-metal thirn ble-skein, having the hollow portion screwthreaded to screw'onto the axle for attaching the skein thereto, the threads being made right and left for difl'erent sides of the wagon, in order to have the pitch so that the skeins will not work loose by friction of the wheels revolving on them when the wagon moves forward.

Figure l is a side elevation of a thiinbleskeiu constructed according to my invention, and Fig. 2 is a longitudinal sectional elevation.

Similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts. 7

A represents the cast-metal skein with a hollow space, B, extending nearly its whole V as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent- 1. The thimble-skein A having its hollow portion B screw-threaded for attachment to the axle, in the manner described.

2. The axle-skein A. having the. extension 0, the inner surface of which is formed on the same lines or taper as the screw-threaded portion B, as shown and described.

JEREMIAH JOHNSON HUTOHINS.

Witnesses:

J. B. PACKARD, O. E. RICHARDS. 

